ShadowCopy ShadowCopy - Trick Spotlight into indexing your CDs so you can search over them even while they're not inserted
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ShadowCopy - Trick Spotlight into indexing your CDs so you can search over them even while they're not inserted Shadow Copy is a small tool that tricks Spotlight into indexing your CDs so you can search over them even while they're not inserted. ShadowCopy achieves this by creating folders with aliases to all files of a CD on your hard disk whenever a new volume is mounted.ShadowCopy also includes NDAlias sources for creating alias files and source code for a background-only app with status item.Add ShadowCopy to your Login Items (System Preferences, "Users" pane). When next you log in, ShadowCopy will be launched in the background (you'll see this because a small CD icon will show for three seconds in the upper right of your menu bar). It will sit there using no CPU until a new drive is mounted. When that happens, it will create a "shadow copy" (i.e. only folders and file aliases) of this CD in a folder named DiskIndex in your user folder.NOTE: ShadowCopy does not know what's a CD, what's a disk image and what's a network volume, and thus will index any of them blindly. To avoid having to wait for such indexing to finish, just create an empty folder with the volume's name in the DiskIndex folder. That will make ShadowCopy think there already was a ShadowCopy and the volume will be skipped. Since ShadowCopy uses the name of a volume to tell it from other volumes, you're out of luck if you have lots of CDs named "Untitled CD".

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